tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:/projects/hickies/hickies-turn-your-kicks-into-slip-ons/postsKickstarter: HICKIES - TURN YOUR KICKS INTO SLIP-ONS2014-05-09T15:14:36-04:00tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/8387012014-05-09T15:14:36-04:002014-05-12T10:35:46-04:00Just A Few Days Left<p>Hi Everyone, </p><p>We only have 4 days left on our <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hickies/pungas-3d-printed-shoe-accessories" target="_blank">Kickstarter campaign</a> for <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hickies/pungas-3d-printed-shoe-accessories" target="_blank">PUNGAS</a> and we want to invite you all to check it out before it closes. Thank you for supporting us in our adventures and helping us grow. </p><p>Mariquel and Gaston </p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/8194802014-04-22T17:01:41-04:002014-05-20T15:45:19-04:00Check out our newest Kickstarter CampaignThis post is for backers only. Please visit <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hickies/hickies-turn-your-kicks-into-slip-ons/posts/819480">Kickstarter.com</a> and log in to read.tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/8103682014-04-14T12:08:50-04:002014-04-14T18:13:08-04:00Check out our new Kickstarter project, PUNGAS<p>Two years ago, you helped us introduce the world to HICKIES. For the last two years, we’ve spent a lot of time experimenting with 3D printing technology and coming up with new ways to personalize sneakers. We found a way to mix our two passions with our newest creation, <a href="http://kck.st/1eAKzcj" target="_blank">PUNGAS</a>, which is live on <a href="http://kck.st/1eAKzcj" target="_blank">Kickstarter now</a>. <b>Check it out and pledge!</b></p><a href="http://kck.st/1eAKzcj" target="_blank"><div class="template asset" contenteditable="false" data-id="1877606">
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</a><p><a href="http://kck.st/1eAKzcj" target="_blank">PUNGAS</a> are bold SHOE ACCESSORIES. They are 3D printed, easy to use, and wearable on different parts of your sneakers. They are a byproduct of an exclusive collaboration between HICKIES, Pictoplasma and Shapeways, the leading 3D printing manufacturer based in New York.</p><p><a href="http://kck.st/1eAKzcj" target="_blank">PUNGAS</a> opens the door to customize your shoe in a completely different way and are proof that 3D printing technology is changing the way we manufacture and shop forever.</p><p>We ask for you to check out <a href="http://kck.st/1eAKzcj" target="_blank">PUNGAS</a>, be bold and to challenge the status quo like you did with HICKIES, and to fall in love all over again. </p><p>Help us introduce the world to <a href="http://kck.st/1eAKzcj" target="_blank">PUNGAS</a>.</p><p><b>Click to share on <a href="https://twitter.com/home?status=@HICKIES%20debuts%20worlds%20first%203D%20printed%20shoe%20accessories,%20PUNGAS,%20is%20live%20on%20Kickstarter%20.%20Check%20it%20out%20http://kck.st/1eAKzcj" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://hrefshare.com/7687" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=http://kck.st/1eAKzcj&amp;title=Worlds%20first%203D%20printed%20shoe%20accessories,%20PUNGAS,%20is%20live%20on%20Kickstarter.%20Check%20it%20&amp;summary=PUNGAS%20are%20bold%20shoe%20accessories%20that%20are%20wearable%20on%20different%20parts%20of%20sneakers,%20and%20a%20byproduct%20of%20an%20exclusive%20collaboration%20between%20HICKIES,%20Shapeways%20and%20international%20artists%20from%20the%20&amp;source=HICKIES" target="_blank">Linkedin</a>,</b> <i>or copy paste “@HICKIES debuts worlds first 3D printed shoe accessories, PUNGAS, is live on Kickstarter . Check it out <a href="http://kck.st/1eAKzcj" target="_blank">http://kck.st/1eAKzcj</a>” </i></p><p>Thank you for your support,
Mariquel and Gaston</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/6914292013-12-11T09:08:46-05:002013-12-12T12:02:48-05:00Special Deal For Kickstarter Backers Today Only!This post is for backers only. Please visit <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hickies/hickies-turn-your-kicks-into-slip-ons/posts/691429">Kickstarter.com</a> and log in to read.tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/5325342013-07-08T12:01:05-04:002013-10-14T20:04:12-04:00The 2nd Generation of HICKIES is HERE!!!This post is for backers only. Please visit <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hickies/hickies-turn-your-kicks-into-slip-ons/posts/532534">Kickstarter.com</a> and log in to read.tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/4321922013-03-19T14:47:13-04:002013-03-19T15:17:27-04:00Flex Is Kings<p>We are proud to announce that HICKIES has joined with <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deidre/flex-is-kings-premiere-at-tribeca-film-festival" target="_blank">Flex is Kings</a> in helping receive support and backers for their film that is premiering at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival.</p><p><b>The Low Down:</b></p><p><i><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deidre/flex-is-kings-premiere-at-tribeca-film-festival" target="_blank">Flex Is Kings</a></i> documents the hopes and realities of the under-acknowledged and totally unfunded group of Brooklyn artists behind the urban dance movement known as "Flex."</p><p><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deidre/flex-is-kings-premiere-at-tribeca-film-festival" target="_blank">Flex Is Kings</a> takes place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, where high crime rates and diminished opportunities have left the young men growing into adulthood few choices and fewer resources, pushing so many to lives dependent on crime and gangs. Yet there is a large and growing group resisting the notion that their prospects are limited to a powerless existence. On these streets a dance community rose, eager for an avenue of expression and determined to create a positive force in their neighborhood. </p><p>"Flex" is the name of the dance style - it involves dance battle competitions that are at once flights of fancy as well as poetic evocations of the streets - gun battles, romantic interludes, run-ins with authorities. The film is structured around a season of Battlefest, the central organizing event of the Flex movement, and focuses on some of the community's key personalities.</p><p><b>Check it</b></p><p>Here is a great video to show you what <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deidre/flex-is-kings-premiere-at-tribeca-film-festival" target="_blank">Flex</a> actually is. </p><div class="template oembed" contenteditable="false" data-href="https://vimeo.com/61230255">
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<p>We are very excited and happy to help out with this wonderful project and share it with all of you and hopefully the world. If you like what you see, check out their Kickstarter page and see if it is something you would want to support. </p><p>A community screening of the film is set to take place in April, dates and location are TBD. </p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/3919032013-01-24T12:00:32-05:002013-01-24T13:41:39-05:00HICKIES featured at the GRAMMYS and new experience manager!<p><b>Friends and backers of HICKIES!</b><br>First off, we want to publicly thank all of you for making this project and dream come true. We want to share some good news with you to make you feel proud!</p><p><b>HICKIES EXPERIENCE MANAGER</b><br>We recently added an Experience Manager to the HICKIES family, who will assist you on all HICKIES related issues. Her name is Carla, and she will email each of our KS backers to follow up on your experience with HICKIES and listen what you have to say to us. We are aware that as a new company, with a new product, there is much to improve and we want to let you know that we will input the necessary resources to reach perfection. Carla will be having one on one conversations with all of you and take care of any feedback or suggestions for us. We Hope you like this gesture and that you keep sending those nice good vibes we love so much!</p><p><i>To reach Carla directly, please email her at support@hickies.com</i></p><p><b>HICKIES AT THE GRAMMYS</b><br>Are you excited to watch the Grammys soon? We know we are! HICKIES will be an item featured in the Grammy gift bags that will be given to those in attendance. This is huge for HICKIES, and for you as backers as well :)</p><div class="template oembed" contenteditable="false" data-href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xdz1uix_Yg8/UQFqdNwlP7I/AAAAAAAAAUM/3M6Qt5yqR-Y/s400/GrammyAwards.jpg">
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<p><i>Check out the press release: <a href="http://www.pressking.com/press-releases/GRAMMY-Gift-Bags-Are-Getting-HICKIED--041898" target="_blank">HICKIES at the Grammys!</a></i></p><p><b>HICKIES NEWSLETTER</b><br>We want to keep everyone informed about the progress of HICKIES by sending out a newsletter. We feel that the newsletter will be less invasive than the KS update, since you will have the option to unsubscribe or re-direct if you wish to.</p><p>We want to keep you in the loop since so many interesting things come along with building a new company. We will use it wisely and share not only great news, but also special gifts, discounts and other ways to make you feel as important as you are to us.</p><p><b>FINALLY, A GIFT</b><br>We are so happy to know HICKIES backers are from all around the world. We would like to share through our social media updates, pictures of HICKIES in their new homes throughout the world. </p><p>Send us a picture to <i><b>social@hickies.com</b></i> of your HICKIES in their new environment (like the one you see below) and tell us where it is, and try to take a picture near a landmark. In return, we will send a HICKIES t-shirt to the first 300 participants that send us a picture, and host a fun contest on FB to see who can guess where that place is! </p><p>With that said, who can guess where these HICKIES are kicking it?</p><div class="template oembed" contenteditable="false" data-href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Cp04wNHZ83M/UQFzzHIqOmI/AAAAAAAAAUk/e511RYQehWU/s640/photo.JPG">
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<p>Thank you for all the love, help and support from all of you.<br>Love Your Kicks!<br>Team HICKIES</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/3634292012-12-05T20:47:00-05:002013-10-13T08:41:47-04:00Last Chance for the contest!<p>Hi Backers!</p><p>We wanted to remind t=you that Dec 10th is the final day to post your pixs into Instagram for our contest. Use the #loveyourkicks and upload your coolest pix of your favorite kicks!</p><div class="template" data-href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bvTB21okIcQ/UL_5p8t4J8I/AAAAAAAAAG8/cDGq-JVwwgQ/s1024/Share_Hickies_LastChance-1.jpg">
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</div><p>We also wanted to share this video we made, one of many to come with different ways to wear HICKIES. This are techniques for a <b>WIDER FIT</b></p><p><b>If you have more ideas send them to social@hickies.com and we will make a video about them!</b></p><div class="template oembed" contenteditable="false" data-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK-RHHp28p4&amp;feature=youtu.be">
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<p>REMEMBER IF YOU HAVE ANY ISSUE WITH YOUR PLEDGE OR ANY QUESTION, OR ANYTHING, I MEAN, ANYTHING, WE CAN DO FOR YOU OR HELP YOU WITH, SEND US AN EMAIL TO <b>SUPPORT@HICKIES.COM</b></p><p>We are happy to talk to you and help you and make you happy! </p><p>LOVE YOUR KICS!</p><p>Thank you!!!</p><p>Mariquel &amp; Gaston</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/3411662012-11-02T15:23:21-04:002013-10-13T04:03:56-04:00HICKIES CONTEST !<p>Hi Kickstarters!</p><p>How is everyone doing? These have been an amazing couple of weeks for HICKIES. Thank you so much for all the nice comments and emails. </p><p> So we have a couple of announcements: </p><p> 1) As we've told you before you are some of our favorite people in the world and we are always thinking of ways to show our appreciation and to keep you guys happy. As many of you have stated that you want more HICKIES we have created a special discount code exclusively for Kickstarter backers. Use the code <b>LOVEYOURKICKSTARTERS</b> on our website and you will get a <b>25% discount</b> on your next purchase. (Christmas is right around the corner!)</p><p> 2) We are starting to feel the Holiday spirit want to start giving presents, so we decided to launch a contest with amazing prizes for our community of sneaker lovers. </p><div class="template" data-href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZvGk5zzOiyA/UJQ00vdWrLI/AAAAAAAAAFA/7zN1vIErW6Y/s576/Share_Hickies_final_4.jpg">
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</div><p><br><br><b>Prizes!!!</b></p><p>Special prizes will be awarded to the Top Three winners of the Love Your Kicks contest, and each of the Top Ten finalists will receive a full collection of all 17 HICKIES color packs. <br><br>· The Grand Prize winner will receive a Mixte 3 bicycle by Linus Bikes featuring genuine leather grips, a durable hi-tensile steel frame, and a mid-century alloy bell, among other signature elements. </p><div class="template" data-href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ysw5t2Tsv3I/UJQ1J-90SlI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/DWHREUPJyHI/s433/Screen%2520Shot%25202012-11-01%2520at%25206.37.43%2520PM.png">
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</div><p><br>· Third Prize is a Z2300 Instant Digital Camera by Polaroid equipped with 10 megapixel digital camera and printing capabilities. </p><p>You can view all the entries and find more details at <a href="http://hickies.com/instagram" target="_blank">hickies.com/instagram</a></p><p><br><b>3) WAIT THERE'S MORE! </b>We want to keep improving our product and would love to have your valuable feedback so that we can continue making HICKIES better. You will continue to help us if you could take 2 minutes to complete <a href="https://hickies.wufoo.com/forms/hickies-kickstarter-feedback/" target="_blank">THIS SUPER FUN AND SHORT SURVEY!</a><br><br>4) Finally, if you have any questions about your order or any other issue regarding your HICKIES please contact us at <b>support@hickies.com.</b> We would like to start forwarding all our queries to this email address instead of using KS messages. </p><p><i>There are still almost a hundred orders that need to be processed and shipped. Please be patient, they will arrive at their destinations soon. </i></p><p>Thank you again and we hope to see all your kicks full of HICKIES in the contest. We are actually sad that we cannot participate ourselves although based on some of the pictures you have been sharing on facebook and twitter, we probably wouldn't stand a chance!</p><p>LOVE YOUR KICKS!</p><p>HICKIES team!</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/3288622012-10-15T12:57:29-04:002013-10-13T01:46:40-04:00The time is now!This post is for backers only. Please visit <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hickies/hickies-turn-your-kicks-into-slip-ons/posts/328862">Kickstarter.com</a> and log in to read.